Homepage of Connie White, PhD - CEO of ITSFEM & Social Media Consultants

Connie White is faculty in the School of Computing in the College of Science and Technology at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA. She is the author of "Social Media, Crisis Communications and Emergency Management: Leveraging Mobile Technologies, 2nd Ed. and has published extensively. Dr. White is a founding member of the USA Chapter of The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS). Her current research interest include exploring the actions and abilities of communities of practice who are online collectives of cyber terrorist. She can be reached at connie.m.white@gmail.com

Latest & Lots of work can be found at:

http://www.slideshare.net/conniewhite

Two New Book Publications!

1) Social Media, Crisis Communications and Emergency Management: Leveraging Web 2.0 Technology" Frances and Taylor Publications, CRC Press.

2) Delphi Decision Support 2.0: Crisis Management Support During Extreme Events Publisher: Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany.

Chapter contributions:

1) Supporting Real Time Decision-Making: The Role of Context in Decision Support on the Move

2) Managing Crises and Disasters with Emerging Technologies: Advancements

Schedule of Workshops and Presentations (Slides Available After Event)

Relating to the system that was the focus of my dissertation, A Dynamic Delphi System to Support Decision Making by Large Groups of Crisis Management Experts, is the state of the art paper: A Collaborative Decision Analysis. This is offered as a comprehensive literature review exploring questions remaining in the field. Followed by the dissertation, A Dynamic Delphi System to Support Decision Making by Large Groups of Crisis Management Experts. For those not interested in reading 350 pages, a theoretical basis is provided in Dynamic Delphi for Collaborative Judgment. This describes the mathematics behind how decisions can be made using the Delphi technique in real time, over time, and under uncertainty with a large group of experts using a scaling technique created by Thurstone furthering what can be done with the existing system built.

Last although written first, (wikis are still slow to come around)DynamicWiki demonstrates how wikis can be used with the Delphi technique to produce a collective intelligence with the characteristics described in the Delphi paper. emergenciWiki explores how wikis could aid in response efforts by providing real time information with Free and Open Source Software providing low overhead with a powerful tool. ICIS Virtual Community of Practice explores how individuals can come together and formulate one group opinion using a technique described in the paper. This helps online groups form into constructive communities building knowledge. United We Respond - One Community, One Voice provides a methodology that can create and sustain a group “voice” for an emergency response Community of Practice demonstrating the synergistic effect. For reference information on these and other publications, please see the link Publications. All other traditional academic information can be found in the left hand frame. If you should need any further information, please contact me at connie.m.white@gmail.com.

Other research interests of mine include High Reliability Organizations, Virtual Organizations, Emergency Notification Systems, Collaborative International Online System Development, Social Media and Web 2.0 Technologies, GIS in EM, Virtual Alabama, Communities of Practice, Collaborative Decision Making, and the improvement of existing Emergency Scales/Threat Assessment Tools.

Lots of presentations & papers free: http://www.slideshare.net/conniewhite/

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An Online Social Network For Emergency Management This paper is the first phase of some research probing the Social Network paradigm and how it can support Emergency Management. The second phase, The Design of an Online Social Network Site for Emergency Management: A One-Stop Shop, furthers this work from a crisis information systems perspective, providing more ideas for development and use as well as identifying threats and other vulnerabilities. Recently, in the January - March Issue of the International Journal of Information Systems and Crisis Manaement Systems, we published a A Framework to Identify Best Practices: Social Media and Web 2.0 Technologies in the Emergency Domain. This paper explores the characteristics of the emergency domain that should be considered and that will influence the different ways in which social media can play a role - in all phases of emergency management.